build america bonds to build the infrastructure of america in a strong way, make it in america and other legislation to stop jobs going overseas by reversing the tax breakses for companies -- breaks for companies taking jobs overseas. so those are the only initiatives, and the republicans overwhelmingly voted against those initiatives. so all we've seen has come from the democrats in job creation. what we're seeing from the republicans is taking us in the wrong direction. we have made it clear that we will extend a happened of friendship, as congressman larson said. but we will judge every initiative that comes to the floor by three criteria. one, does it create jobs. two, does it strengthen the middle class. three, does it reduce the deficit. all of them on a par with each other, all of one piece. what we see with the reversing the economic recovery in the bill is not an initiative that will reduce the deficit. instead we see false economies that must be stopped. now, we had proposed we'd save $41 billion at the end of last year, $43 billion cut in president obama's budget. only one rep